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Genotype of N-acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2) polymorphism in children with immunoglobulin E-mediated food allergy.
Clinical pharmacology and therapeutics - 1 May 2001
Gawronska-Szklarz B, Pawlik A, Czaja-Bulsa G, Górnik W, Luszawska-Kutrzeba T, Wrześniewska J
Abstract excerpt
We investigated whether patients with immunoglobulin E-mediated food allergy differed from healthy individuals with regard to genotype of the polymorphic enzyme N -acetyltransferase 2 (NAT2). The genetic polymorphism of acetylation can alter the toxic and therapeutic response to certain xenobiotics and may be also a factor that influences the susceptibility toward certain partly chemically induced diseases. We...
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